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The news that JR East and Panasonic will develop a vacuum cleaner type recovery device that sucks and collects AirPods that have fallen on the railroad tracks has become a hot topic overseas.
Since it is grabbed and collected, to the method of sucking and collecting
According to JR East, when collecting AirPods that have fallen on the railroad track from the platform, a grasping type collection device is used, but the collection of AirPods caught between the stones of the ballast trackbed is It’s difficult.
To improve that, JR East seems to be working with Panasonic to develop a new collection device for collecting AirPods and other fully wireless earphones.
This device seems to be a type that sucks completely wireless earphones like a vacuum cleaner and sucks it to the device and collects it instead of grasping and collecting it, and in the test conducted by JR East at Ikebukuro station so far It seems that it was confirmed that it can be collected more easily than the collection device of.
Overseas media also pay attention
The news also mentions iPhone Hacks and others as interesting ideas. Overseas, the media reports that they also see AirPods that appear to have fallen onto the tracks from subway platforms.
Source: Japan Times via iPhone Hacks
Photo: Apple
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Source: iPhone Mania